Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2002, 8:54 PM EDT for Medina County, Ohio. It was in force for 21 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2002, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2002, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Medina County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Seville, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Seville and Wadsworth. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCLE 240054 TORCLE OHC103-240115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 854 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MEDINA COUNTY IN OHIO... * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 854 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF WADSWORTH...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF MEDINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * AT 854 PM EDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF WADSWORTH...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF MEDINA. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WADSWORTH $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Medina | 20 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.